🔗 Mapped: Each State’s Share of Total U.S. Exports

I guess ‘software’ and ‘services’ are not included in ‘exports’?

🔗 Revamping Post Stats - Amit Gawande

@amit - thank you for reminding me and thank you for doing it.

Although the insights are a little scary ….

🔗 Seeker – On my Om

I have always struggled to describe myself. Not sure how others see me versus how I see myself. This is not the first time I have had to confront this question. As a child and as a young man, I dealt with this same challenge.

I have the same problem. Hell I can write pages and get nowhere close to the right summary - and Jax just nails it when she introduces me. Then again - I am better and introducing her than she is introducing herself.

🔗 We know that Macs last longer in use. How much longer? – Asymco

But the really shocking revelation from the report is that more than half of Windows PCs used in big business get replaced within a year.

For most of my life of living in the Mac world - I have never worked out why Total Cost of Ownership is rarely used as a metric to make decisions around ‘which computer should I buy’.

🔗 Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026

Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn’t have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of “singular” posts, ie posts without titles.

Don’t we all❓It has been like this - forever - and oft’ flagged by others - and yet it remains never fixed. No idea why🤷🏻‍♂️. I (ok. Claude) fixed my importer that had this problem in less than a minute.

🔗 Explore Art UK’s Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals — Colossal

Just a little more than two years after launching the initiative, Art UK has added more than 6,600 new works to its database, bringing the total number of public artworks to well over 21,000.

Wonderful stuff. Just wonderful.

🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs

Several people — surprisingly many — have asked me to expand on that.

“I dunno” - wrote Alan

With him - you only have to read a couple of posts either side of the original to get what he is talking about

🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - daverupert.com

I’ve been watching the same guy make a musical marble machine for ten years.

Never heard of it until now.

Subscribed.

When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.

📼🎵🔗Fast Forward to 2020

Hold My Beer

💬 Rammstein